Random thoughts.

With Bush and the republicans tanking in the polls as a result of their corruption and incompetence, democrats and progressives have high hopes for November. I would remind one and all that voting, in and of itself, is not enough for it is the counting of those votes that is of paramount importance. As long as Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia, etc. are supplying voting stations without a paper trail capability and disallowing any review of the tallying software by independent agents, we can expect a redux of the elections of 2000, 2002 & 2004, elections where exit polling, a valuable and accurate tool for some twenty years or more, turned out to be 'inaccurate' and hence discarded. This phenomenom was also noted in selected state and local elections since 2000. So take heart from the tanking numbers, indicators that even republicans are seeing the truth, take heart but be on guard for another round of election thievery, for those in power know that with the loss of control of even one house of the congress would come the inevitable downfall of the abominable Bush regime.

Carl Rove's fifth appearance before the Grand Jury, regardless of how it is spun, cannot be a good thing. Look for an indictment in the coming days. Under indictment, the last thing on Rove's mind will be the coming elections. His focus will be on keeping himself out of jail because he, of all people, knows that with Bush, once anyone cannot do for him, that person is as the saying goes, 'Out of sight, out of mind' and given that this attitude is a Bush family tradition, Rove knows that there will be no pardon should he be convicted. No pardon, only a long and lonely stretch of twisting in the wind. That is a Bush family value.

Related to the election, if the democrats are successful in wresting control of one, or both, houses of congress from republican control, that will result in the most dangerous time in the history of the republic for the handwriting would be writ bold on the wall for Bush and his cronies and, in the time honored tradition of rats when cornered, they will do anything in order to stay the consequences of their actions both here at home and abroad these past 6 years.

The Generals

The retired generals who have spoken out, in retrospect, calling for Rumsfeld's head while admirable, misses the point, I believe.

Until the generals, and other officers and men, are prepared to stand up for America and voice their opposition to the inept, unamerican national leadership, nothing will change.

Please spare me the nonsense about loyalty for the only loyalty is that of to the Constitution, period. Had the German Wehrmacht the courage to tell Hitler that they would not swear an oath of loyalty to him but would continue in the honored tradition of loyalty to the fatherland, the history of Europe, and the world, may well have taken a different path.

I understand that it is difficult to stand up in opposition when it makes likely the fact that all you have worked for will disappear but no one ever said that keeping our freedom was easy. The Founders risked everything to give us that which is now being trampled by George W. Bush and his willing henchmen in their task of transforming America from the last, greatest hope of humanity into just another cold and cruel imperialistic power.

Time grows short, the flame of liberty flickers dangerously low.